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China’s businesses and cities benefiting from this big data platform
In 2011, Yuanhao Sun (pictured) was part of the Intel team that released the first enterprise Apache Hadoop in China. Seven years later, he is leading a team at Transwarp Technology Inc. that built a distributed in-memory analysis engine and real-time, large-scale computation platform, claiming better performance of open-source Hadoop by factors of 10 to ...
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The era of big data moves into the realm of action and ethics
With big data and its consequences very much in the news this year, the conversation around the handling of information streams is turning toward issues such as privacy and bias. The big data era has moved from the technical requirements, such as ingestion and storage, into the realm of action, where enterprises need to put data ...
IBM Watson with blockchain boost adds visibility to supply chain disruptions
IBM Corp. has made big bets on Watson, its artificial intelligence platform, and the revolutionary ledger system blockchain. So, it only makes sense that the company would ultimately combine the two for the next generation of transaction systems. One key area that could reap the benefits of what AI and a distributed ledger have to ...
Security, 5G help drive Nuage Networks’ software-defined WAN strategy
The software-defined wide area network represents a technology solution that is quietly working its way into the enterprise picture. Once viewed as a valuable connectivity solution for organizations with multiple branches, SD-WAN is gaining traction within the enterprise for its ability to manage applications delivery in the multicloud world. “It is a combination of factors ...
Latest Kubernetes update sets stage for KubeCon in May
With the release of Kubernetes 1.10 in March, developers and users familiar with the project will have plenty to discuss when the community gathers in Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 2 through 4 for KubeCon, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference. The first update in 2018 revealed a stronger focus on security, networking and storage, themes that will ...
Oracle serves up its Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud, seasoned with Amazon-bashing
It’s probably a safe bet that when Oracle Corp. Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison wakes up in the morning, he doesn’t converse with Alexa. The company’s founder spent more than an hour Tuesday during a presentation at the company’s headquarters in Redwood Shores, California, alternately trumpeting the merits of Oracle’s Autonomous Database Cloud and ...
From China to the US, AI still looks a lot like us: imperfect and still learning
Artificial intelligence holds tremendous promise, has been a major disappointment or is a threat that will derail civilization as we know it. All of those views, in fact, were apparent during discussions this week at EmTech Digital 2018, the MIT Technology Review conference held this week in San Francisco. Which characterization is right depends a great deal ...
This data company is accelerating production to conquer the last mile
Picture a room of information technology professionals where they are asked a simple question: How many have been working on a data science model that still has not gone into production after nine months? Then imagine that more than 90 percent raised their hands. That is what’s known as a real business opportunity. “It all ...
Technologist learned organizational lessons from Yahoo failure
Salim Ismail (pictured) has a vision for the organization of the future, and it doesn’t look anything like what exists today. Centralized authority will become distributed, closed decision-making will move toward openness and transparency, and predictability will transition into flexibility and rapid change. “We now have the ability to scale an organization structure as fast ...
Now at the tipping point, football analytics offer new view of the game
Walk into any National Football League stadium on game day and the scene is similar in many ways. There are cheerleaders, music, a very large scoreboard, vendors hawking food and drink in the aisles, and two helmet-clad teams doing battle on the field. Yet, what many people may not realize is that the game taking place in ...
